“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance

Re:“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance by czbond on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:49PM (#23230516)

I respect your opinion - it's hard to put those out there.

As a counter thought, would a 'hole' in the argument be that religion doesn't ask, require, or expect you to be #1. It just asks you to try to improve and to become a better person. How could Gd expect you to be as good as "he/she/it/they"? Gd would have created you, and designed your limitations.

Why not separate G*d's expectations of you from your interpretations of it? Just say "i'm falliable, always will be; always improving, always will be"

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Re:“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance by thomk on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:57PM (#23230567)

Thank you for your comment, yes it is hard.

So what you are saying is God built failure into me intentionally. Therefore I could just point to that and say "Well I failed because I was prebuilt knowing I was going to fail". I don't accept that. I say "I failed because of something I, personally did not or could not do yet. I will correct that. It's not divine, it's just work and it's on me."

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Re:“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance by wombatpm on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:40PM (#23231089)

Depends on your branch. Calvinism claimed there were only 1300 Elect who were guaranteed a place in heaven. Lot of effort spent trying to figure out your ranking

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Re:“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance by czbond on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:25PM (#23236726)

I did not know that. 1300? That is quite a specific, but round number. 1028 would have been really cool!

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